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In 1953, the Fuji Heavy Industries was established in Japan under its CEO, Kenji Kita. A year later, Subaru was established as one or more of the divisions of the firm that’s committed to developing and producing cars. It holds its Japan headquarters in Gunma.

Subaru was introduced towards US in 1968 ended up it very first held its headquarters in Philadelphia till it had been acquired through the FHI in 1986. In 1989, Subaru has signed a partnership with Isuzu and formed a factory in Indiana in which the Subaru Legacy and Isuzu Rodeo were definitely the initial ones provided to the American marketplace.

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Are you going for a vacation? Or is it a corporate traveling? Are you planning a long distance traveling? Or do you want to travel within a city? There are different reasons to travel and different solutions too! For all purposes, for all moods and for all kinds of itineraries, there are car rental services available. Going for a car rental has always been a popular option, as it provides people great comfort, flexibility, choice and cost effectiveness. Responding to this need, the car rental services at local and international level, continually strive to offer the best. Car rental services give its customer offer of free call-backs, car rental, and a vast selection of vehicles in their site’s ensuring the client has the best possible choice to choose from. These include green collection, fun collection, convertibles, estate, and 4WD/AWD and commercial vans and trucks. You have to browse through the Internet and you will see lots of special offers. Car rentals give you the option of picking your dream car. Are you looking for a convertible for the coast? A jeep for the mountains?

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I own a jeep. I’ve always owned jeeps. From the old 70s CJ models to the newer, way more comfy (or so my wife tells me) cherokees. I don’t know why I do, but I’ve always loved them. Recently on an outback excursion I hit a kangaroo. I was only doing about 10km/h so the damage was minimal, but this incident got me thinking about frontal protection. So I called my mates at All Vehicle Accessories in Melbourne to have a chat about bullbars. During this chat they brought up the topic of smartbars. Before the conversation, I didn’t even know they existed. So I got onto Google to do some research on the products and found a lot of opinion (most of it based on aesthetics and perception rather than utility and fact) but pretty much no factual information. So me and my mates at All Vehicle Accessories dug a little deeper, and this is what we found.

Topic 1. Safety
With frontal protection products, there are 3 general areas of concern regarding safety. These are the ability to protect passengers, the ability to protect pedestrians and the ability to protect your car. Talking about protection generally, I find it starnge how many bullbar exponents out there point out that when you are travelling at 150kms/h, no matter what you hit, its going to be fatal to the object and probably the vehicle. Personally I think such arguments are ridiculous as they suggest all collissions are at excessive speeds and dismiss the relative safety performance of the products at lower speeds. Continue reading ‘Smartbars Vs Bullbars; a Critical Comparison’ »